DE: You can always find home

[bjornwilde]

 It's Friday! Is everyone ready for new character weekend? Anyone need help with preparing new apps?

As to today's topic, I realized, yesterday I think it was, that the Fantastic Four will always be a home to me. In other words, they are a default canon for me. What are some of your default canons?

And yes, it is still so weird to not see any solicits for a Fantastic Four title for either the current summer crossover or the All-New Marvel.

Comments

[sdelmonte]

My default canon, my favorite place in all of fiction, is the DC Universe. Nothing gives me more delight than reading a good DC comic, not even a good TV show or film based on a good comic. Though I would argue that the reason I love The Flash so much is because it's the closest live action has ever come to being my DCU.

Star Trek and Star Wars don't lag far behind. Very different canons, but both make me happy.

And I agree totally about the FF. The way Marvel is treating what is a flagship title is absurd.

[gottadealwithit]

It kind of mirrors what they're doing with mutants as well. Trouble is, it suuuuucks for fans of the title, but makes financial sense if they're trying to market to readers for which the movies are a gateway.

[bjornwilde]

This is true but X-Men are at least getting X For Extinction and the Age of Apocalypse series.

ETA: Also, I swear there are X-Men titles post-Secret Wars, though I can't think of any off the top of my head.

[bjornwilde]

I don't know if the title wasn't selling well or they just don't know how to write a family of explorers.

Oh, and i just remembered Ben is at least shown joining the Guardians of the Galaxy.

[inlovewithwords]

Codex Alera. I'm sure no one could tell.

DCU invarious forms comes in a pretty close second; Smallville ranks high within this but is not exclusive.

Tales of Symphonia actually also is this for me, even if I don't play from it anymore. Couple others ranking below that, but those are probably the first big three.

[varadia]

Marvel mutants is a big one. I have been into the X-men and affiliates since I was five or so? So. Yeah. Home.

Also Dragonlance, weirdly enough. I remember way more about that canon than I should, since I have not really read it in forever. But man, close to my heart.

Dragon Age stuff, all of it, no matter what the medium.

The Batman, Wonder Woman, and Justice League parts of DC pre-Nu52. Esp between 1987 and 2005-ish. That's the DC stuff I grew up with.

Wheel of Time, seriously, because this is another one I grew up with. Aaaaaaah.

[bjornwilde]

I was thinking Dragonlance as one of my fantasy picks, even if I've only read the original series and only a few of the spin offs.

[genarti]

The Dark Is Rising, ever and always. And Tolkien, too. Even though I've never been very fannishly active in the latter, and I did most of my active playing around with the former in 2004-2006 or so.

[innerbrat]

Discworld and DC comics.

Although it sucks that so much of DC's current offering sucks.

And it also sucks that... well, you know.

[nothinglikeanybody]

Grayson's been pretty good! I'm not really sold on Teen Titans v5, but KON/TIM LIIIIIVES so I'll keep reading it through some way or another. >>

[innerbrat]

I tried with Grayson but I couldn't. I like Dick! I like spies! I'm just - I couldn't follow it it bored me so.

[nothinglikeanybody]

Awww.

I do look forward to the inevitable mess when he comes back and the rest of the Batfamily finds out he's alive. (I'm also glad for once that 52!Tim is a different character because it would destroy preboot!Tim lbh. HE CAN'T TAKE LOSING ANYONE ELSE)

[gottadealwithit]

Reasons pre-boot Dick would never do that:

1. that.

[anthologia]

Thank you for thinking about your emotionally-fucked-up little brother's mental health Dick. ♥

I still think he shouldn't have dropped the whole "hey Tim there's a nice therapist in Metropolis you could talk to" thing just because Bruce turned out to be alive though I get why he wouldn't want to risk pushing it when their relationship was already kinda rocky. still. so many red flags.

[bjornwilde]

Make mine Marvel, especially F4 (as noted), X-Men (and affiliates), and Spider-Woman.

Dragonriders of Pern. Such a sucker for these books, though I pretty much stopped after Dolphins of Pern.

Star Wars. The original trilogy stands the strongest for me. The prequels work so much better with having seen the Clone Wars TV show and Star Wars Rebels is just awesome. Didn't read much of the EU but I have enjoyed the Old Republic novels I've read.

Godzilla.

Robotech.

[chanter1944]

Eeeee that's right, you're another Dragonriders fan! That's one of my home canons for sure, although I stopped after Skies of Pern, myself. Not touching the Lorana fiasco, oof.

[bjornwilde]

I think I read Skies now that you mention it. I had forgotten about it. I think I tend to consider "All the Weirs of Pern" as the last of the modern era books for me. I still like the first colonists and Moreta's era, but haven't touched Todd's books.

If you haven't read "The Masterharper of Pern" I would highly suggest it as it covers the decade before the last fall and Jaxom's childhood, as well as Robinton's life of course.

[chanter1944]

Not sure I ever read Masterharper, although I know I meant to at one point or other. Agreed about both the colonists and Moreta's era; You know, I wish we'd learned more about Meridan, the very junior Telgari goldrider who alerted Moreta to the senior Weyrwoman restraining the entire weyr instead of letting anyone help with vaccine distribution. Ditto wanting to learn more about M'ray, Moreta's brownrider son.

[dejah_thoris]

I don't really have a default canon. I wrote fanfic in the Harry Potter universe for years. Star Trek before that. Those are worlds I could fall back into with ease, but as much as they are home, I adore discovering new canons and new worlds to explore.

I love lush, rich worldbuilding. I love cultures that challenge our own preconceived notions. I love expansive vistas and tech that's both old and new. I love interesting stuff, it's that simple.

[ceitfianna]

Robin Hood and Narnia have been default canons for me since I was tiny. Growing older Harry Potter, Vorkosigan, Discworld and X-Men, movies were added.

Though as I write this I realize that Agatha Christie and Nero Wolfe fit as well, default canon is an interesting idea. For me there are so many books I reread or series I watch that its hard to pick just one or two but the ones listed are huge. Some others that come to mind are Star Trek, Diana Wynne Jones' books and Into the Woods.

[bjornwilde]

I was thinking of it sort as a home town, where you move away and grow, learn new things and all, but when you go back, it still feels like home.

[ceitfianna]

That makes sense and I have a lot of them since comfort reading and watching is a huge thing for me.

[anthologia]

Probably Star Trek(s). Marvel and DC I've gone back and forth on, too.

Also tangentially related, but I'm reading some more of Tim's older stuff in prep for 13-year-old Tim's arrival and it's like every time I do there's something new and awful to learn about his parents.

like Bruce asked Tim if he'd talked to his parents about why he was hanging out with Bruce Wayne and Tim was like "Actually, I don't know where they are now. They haven't called in a while. It's no big deal. They're so busy, I guess they forget*."

*all of this is actual dialogue

NO BIG DEAL THEY DO THIS ALL THE TIME APPARENTLY

[innerbrat]

Dick really won the parent lottery, didn't he? ONLY ROBIN WITH NON MESSED UP PARENTS. And then they died but eh.

[nothinglikeanybody]

HE REALLY DID. ugh Tim's relationship to his parents is so complicated though because Jack did try after he woke up from his coma, he just... wasn't very good at it. There's an issue of Batman that's framed around Tim writing a letter to his dad that's called To The Father I Never Knew and the title pretty much sums it up.

[sithis_shaped]

The Elder Scrolls. Always. Should probably surprise no one. Particularly not the people who keep hearing from me in chat that one of these days I'll app Vivec.

[chanter1944]

For me, let's see. Star Trek is one, especially TNG, which probably surprises no one. :)

The Dragonriders of Pern series is another, as mentioned above, although I RP'd for *years* in settings where females could Impress blues (not common, but not too unusual) and browns (uncommon, but not at all unheard of), so that informs my view of the canon now. Heck, I have a journal tag referencing this!

Band of Brothers is a third; that whole mindset comes back to me in seconds, seriously.

[bjornwilde]

NOt sure if I've commented on your past playing with the Dragonriders before, but it makes so much more sense for women to be able to impress dragons, both biologically and culturally. I'm sure someone told Anne that no one would want to read a series with women riding dragons but they were wrong.

[chanter1944]

That always bugged me. Both the fact that women didn't Impress greens at all for Turns and Turns, and the lack of blue and brown Impression. ... I'd love to see that series if it were written today, with sex, orientation and gender spectra all acknowledged. I say this as someone who'd probably be riding blue if the situation presented itself. :)

[tu_vas_triompher]

Star Trek. Next Gen, mostly, but also DS9. Yep, that's where it's at for me.

Also Diana Wynne Jones' Chrestomanci world(s)!

[chanter1944]

:) Yay, other Trek folks! As for Chrestomanci, we had a Nirupam Singh from Witch Week at one point - Adiva, was that you? I wish he was still around.

[tu_vas_triompher]

Oh my god, really? I love Witch Week and heh, I've thought of apping Nirupam Singh. Or one of the other kids, but he's such a sweetheart.

[ceitfianna]

I love Chrestomanci so much and the Magid books as well and Star Trek Next Gen.

[rudderless]

Evil Dead, honestly. Always Evil Dead, or if not that then Laverne and Shirley.